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Tech stocks have taken quite the beating along with a lot of other stocks. We’ve seen historical drops over the last two trading days. Have you wondered what happens if stocks drop more? Is there anything to stop it? Turns out there is the stock market circuit breaker. Let’s chat. What is a stock market…
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Your data is so valuable to so many. Retailers, advertisers, and social media companies all want to know more about you. Maybe even some foreign countries. But what does this data mean to you. Your address or shopping habits may or may not seem like much, but what about your genetic data? Your genes essentially…
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Recently Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, announced that the European Union should soon get a digital version of the Euro. Possibly as soon as October. That would mean that the digital Euro would be a central bank digital currency (CBDC). That got me to wondering, between the White House Crypto Summit and…
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Fort Knox. While I’ve never visited and rarely see a picture of it, the name alone evokes a sense of US security, leadership, and wealth. You’ve likely heard of Fort Knox too, as that is where the US stores a lot of its gold. Now the current administration wants to officially start storing up another…
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Have you ever heard of Salt Typhoon? What about a coordinated hack of the US telecommunications companies? If none of that seems familiar to you, you are not alone. While it has been covered in the news, word of it has not seemed to have alarmed as many as it should have. Let’s talk about…
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Crypto or cryptocurrency has risen in popularity and prominence in the past decade. Maybe you’ve heard of Bitcoin or Ethereum or Dogecoin or $TRUMP. Since these digital tokens may become the future of how we pay for things, the White House had its first summit on crypto. Let’s chat. What is crypto? Actually, let’s start…
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Technology can be used to improve our lives, but it can also be used to make life more difficult. Technology does this for scammers and us. With tech, scams are easier to do, while making our lives more difficult trying to discern what is real versus what is a fake. This is certainly true of…
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Back in January, we talked about the $500 Billion investment in AI being made by a consortium of private companies and banks. Now, we have another $100 Billion investment by TSMC in US chip factories. Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money! Let’s chat. TSMC? What is that? TSMC is the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which…
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As AI gets better, we expect to see it take over jobs that had once been done by humans. One particular organization, the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA), decided to try utilizing an AI chatbot to run their hotline. NEDA laid off people in favor of AI, and then ended up laying the bot off…
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Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris earlier this week. As I mentioned in my last post, the US did not sign the agreement produced at the end of the summit on regulating AI. The US not signing probably was not a big surprise to anyone who listened…